Gemma Gurvitz

Director

Gemma is the female Boss of Talent Talks and views everyone on the books as her children! She often has proud 'mum' moments and still after 10 years, shouts at the TV every time she spots a shoot we have cast for, much to the annoyance of her other half.

Gemma's Achilles' heel is the English Language. She has never and will never be able to spell basic works such as 'Business' (you'd have thought she'd have got that one by now). Also apologies to any Brians on our books if Gemma has ever called you 'Brain'. She gets 'Brain' and 'Brian' confused too.

Gemma is a workaholic and although she loves a holiday, her laptop is never far away!

Biggest Like : Brunches. Biggest Dislike : Public Transport.

Louise Smith

Bookings & Accounts Manager

Louise LOVES her job so much that she refuses to take holiday. She's got so much entitlement, she could go on a trip to the moon. If Louise isn't at work, she'll be at home with her kids, usually busying herself until midnight every night and then wonders why she's tired. Louise appreciates silence, so much so that she calls it a "beautiful sound" - maybe because she doesn’t get any! (silence, she doesn't get any silence!)

Louise is an animal lover and likes zombie flicks (random combination). Her dislikes are negative people and basic grammar mistakes. Louise believes a zombie apocalypse will cause the end of the world but her film based knowledge will save her from a brain-sucking end!

Sarah Jackson

Booking and Casting Assistant

Sarah is our own Angel of the North. Our Geordie Dick Whittington who came down saaarf to London to find her home and never went back. Sarah started off at TT just 'doing a bit of admin to help out'; then was working on our Peloton project (booo to Covid for halting that one), but in true Talent Talks style, once she started, she was given loads of work and now she's pretty much full time.

Sarah's idols are (of course) Ant and Dec, and she once cried when at the live Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Tour. Her favourite thing to eat other than Greggs is either battered bread (how is that even a thing) or a Stottie which is some sort of bread roll stuffed with ham and pease pudding. Its a North East thing. Her favourtite drink is (probably) Newcastle Brown Ale and her favourite singer is (probably) Jimmy Nail. Favourite pastime is falling asleep on a Sunday night with a glass of red in her hand. Haway the lads and up the toon!

Rob Norris

IT SPECIALIST

Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they're just carrying an ethernet cable and a wifi switch box. Rob is our tech wizzard (otherwise known as the Talent Talks nerd) but he is the man that makes things work, so that we can work. Rob talks in a computer based jargon language that no one else really understands, full of techy know how and computer based wording that might as well be a foreign language when speaking to the rest of us.

Outside of trying to convince Gemma that she doesn't need to keep emails from 2013 on her laptop and of course making our computers work, Rob is a staunch follower of Arsenal, so when he's not got his head stuck in a server somewhere, he's usually crying in to his beer somewhere. Used to be Gunnersuaraus at weekends until he got sacked.